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Jagdtiger14 -> RE: What would be your War Game fantasy? (1/6/2016 5:55:02 PM)
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I often do thought experiments on how society would be like in the future, children included. I would imagine between our present culture and knowledge base and a society say 200 to 300 years in the future, we probably would be like ancient Spaniards and modern culture. They (the Spaniards) would be totally lost in today's culture. I figure routine spaceflight between stars needs 3 things worked out. 1)FTL drives 2) Adequate protection for highly energetic particles (cosmic rays et all) 3) protection from the deleterious effects of micro-gravity. If you can suspend your disbelief on the FTL the other two are workable with expanding known avenues of today's science.
I do the same. My thinking is that more and more parts of the human body can and will be replaced by machine as they wear out naturally (think 6 million dollar man, or the Borg in Star Trek). Really the only thing a human needs to keep is the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord. I remember a part in one of the Star Trek Next Generation movies involving the Borg...forget which one where the Borg representative/leader female head and spinal cord is descending from somewhere above and into her awaiting body below. This kind of set up will greatly reduce the problems with cosmic rays and especially gravity. We could also live for as long as the brain can live (1,000 years +?). That would also solve the problem with long distance interstellar travel...if you can go 10% the speed of light, it would take you 40 years to get to the Alpha Centauri system of stars...what's 40 years to someone who lives a thousand?
Why the Spaniards? I guess that all depends on which human culture. I see it more like the Pilgrims that arrived to America, or even Jamestown settlers. If there are pleasant habitable Earthlike planets nearby and humans that can make it there due to medical technology, I see them leaving Earth's problems and creating new society's. Probably planets founded on philosophies and religions and most likely allowing only like-minded people to go there.
Also, as for cosmic rays, I read something a while back where H2O (a certain deepness) can help...probably also involving some kind of magnetic field. Imagine a multiple hulled submarine in space with H2O in between the hulls...not only to be used against cosmic rays, but also for fuel, drinking, etc... We pretty much already have all this tech...we just need to work on the human body, and speed up space travel a bit. If we found a habitable planet nearby I think the human race would advance pretty quickly to get us there ASAP.
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